The Sun. — London, England, 1810-07-06 00:00:00

1 I i;.lr h 3 tr. ss and of the ringing of all the bells. His INfliii.evy received at Bagnara and at this plate the :awe testimonies of love and' fidelity as he received iu i i•e other cities which he honoured with his pre ye: • The illumination of yesterday evening having annonneed who enemy that his Majesty was with in our walls, a division of bomb-ketches appeared this morning before the city, and threw into it some bomb.,. which all burst in the air without do ing any injury, At the first cannon ihois by which the enemy was answered, the flotilla disgracefully stunt oltt to sea. Scm LA, Ju convoy.,, consisting of a great number of c.ssels laden with artillery, ammunition, and camp equipage, and escorted by five gun-boats of the R yal Navy, sailed this Morning at day-break from Pietr. Nera to B3gnara, where it arrived at Hint o'clock. The enemy's flotilla, which was ap prized by signals, froth the light-house of the sailing of the convoy, immediately made sail towards Bag rant ; but the convoy was already in security, under the protection of the gon-boats, and a mortar that was planted. Notwithstanding, the advanced ves sels of the enemy's flotilla began to fire as soon as they were within shot ; they were well received by onr gun-boats, and disgracefuly compelled to retire. One of the enemy's gun-boats, however, remained on the watch between Scylla and the light-houke. His Artjesty immediately ordered some grenadiers to embirk in-aseven or eight fishing-boats, and to boarl her. They did, and approached her so closely that a fire of mosquetry began from both sides.— They would inevitably have taken her, had not two other vessel, api eared, which, threatened to cut off their retreat. Thus terininated this brilliant expe dition of the enemy's flotillA, which furnishes a new proof that the r, ngli,l) cannot prevent the passage of the Strait, or even the arrival of our convoys. AKA vZD - 2 Dublin, 2 Waterford. Duz-2C,ottenburgh, z Lisbon. PItIC E OF STO CK S . tri4ls DAY AT TWRLVI O'CLOCK. COOSOIS 69) ex div. I Red. no. 70* Omnium I pr. T H E SUN. SOLEII QUIS btetßz TALSUM AL:IIEAT ? L 0 ND 0 .N, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1810. Thifi morning the agreeable iiitelhgence was re ceived at ihe Ebst Iridia-House, of the safe arrival off the Isle of - Wight of the fleet from St. Helena, con siAing of nineteen ships : they left that Island the 1:,, 5 th of May. Paris Papers to the ‘2 9th ult. reached town last night, extiatis from which will be found in our precedir►g colutnns. We think it right to correct a mis-statement which has Appeared more than once :a the Poi tuguese Pa pers, respecting the amount of the Bihish force un de the command of Lord WEL.LINGTON. These Papers represent his Lordship's force- as amounting to 35,000 men, whereas, in uoint of fail, his army does not at present, nor indeed ever has, exceeded 25,000 men. The same Papers diminish the atioal force of the Frew h army, which, according to all the concurrent French accounts, exceeds 80,000 men. These inaccurate statementS have probably been made for the purpose of inspiring the people of Portugal with confidence, but they-appear to us cal culated, to do much more mischief than good. They may excite a false security, and raise expeciations which, from the relative state of the two armies, can never be realized. Whatever can be accomplished by- the discipline and bravery of troops, beadA by a mos! gallant and skilful General, we - may expect from the army under Lord 'WEL LINGTON ; but it is highly important that the country should know, as-accurately as possible, the amount of our own force and that of the enemy. With equal numbers, we may venture confidently to assert that the French will never engage us. This'may perhaps appear like national preju9ice, but the assertion is founded upon the evidence of fats. We will ven ture to maintain that no instance can be found since the commencement of the last war, in 1793, in wliicn the French have met British Troops. with equal ; -or even any thing, 'like equal numbers, in which they - have not been defeat ed. Though MAssENA baa never, we believe, been opposed to any of the. Soldiers of this " Nation of Shopkeepers," yet he has heard enough of them, to indece him to ea with caution, and not to attack them without such a superiority of numbers as must rentzLr success almost inevitable. - it is therefore but the justice which is due to our Army in Portu gal, and to ,the National Charaaer, not to Suffer erroneous accounts of the hostile Armies to be eir eu!ated without crintradielion. Yesterday morning his MAJP.3TY, Pri:lces - v!; ALT.. GusTA and StPHIA, t.:ok an airing in Windsor Great Park till twelv.• o'clock. His MAJEsTt was accom panied by G-nerals GA RTII and CARTWIIIfIiIT, Lord ST. HELENS, Mr. G. Stow, Colonels TAyt..oll and DEsßlww, and Lady C...t.t.tr..e. Her NIAJcsTY and Princess ELIZABETH tOL)k an airing io Frogtnore Lodge and Gardens; !ht.) , af terwards visited the PrincesS AmF.u.A, who 13 not worse, but is much the same as she has been for the week. By a letter from art Officer on board the Ajax, off To , .lun, received yesterday we learn, that the enemy h.ve in the harbour of timi pliwe 17 aail of the line, b -sides trigat• s and brigs. There-are,fUur large three. dracrs u: tu suns eaul.t. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOVTIt, Jut. 4.-i,-Arrived the transport brig Freedom ; Burrow, from Cadiz and Lisbon; laden with stores, and is sailed again tot Portsmouth. Te Stiijidk transport that arrived here on Men day evening last from Cadiz and Lisbon, spoke in, lat. 46. 5'4. N. lon. 8. 40. W. the ships Mercator, Caledonia, apd Gozarnor Miles, the former belong- ing to HAL all from London, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, with a fine breeze from the N. W. and were all well. , Arrived his Majesty's ship Seine, of 36 guns, from the Westward, she sailed from hence on Sunday last, and was obliged to put back in consequence of her having received considerable damage in a heavy gale of wind on Monday night. Arrived the American ship Rosanna, of Philadel phia, SAMUEL R. SPEAR, master; from Alicant, and Gibraltar, with a cargo consisting of barilia, Spanish-wool, and cork, bound to this port for orders; also arrived his M.ijety's ships Favourite and Peacock from tlie Westward ; Virago from Cork ; and grow fr'om Basque Roads. His tiajesty's ship Amazon has detained and sent in here the Spanish schooner Sun Antonia de Padua, A.'M. ANTONIO, , master, from Lisbon ; with a cargo of salt and bark bound to London. Arrived the Dispatch, SATTLEY ; Commerce, WILLocKs ; and Joseph and Mary, Goss, from Wales ; and the Venus, MENHAM, from New castle. Went into harbour his Majesty's ship Minerva. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 5 .—HisMajesty's ship Bonne Citoyenne takes convoy to" Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec. His Majesty'g ship Charwell takes convoy to the Eastward, and will sail itnniediately. Sailed this day his Majesty's ship Caledonia of 1 1t) guns to Plymouth ; and his Majesty's ship En dyrnion for Cork also sailed his Majesty's 'ships Sharpshooth,- and Gannet, with a convoy for Guern sey and Jet'sey. Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ship L'Aigle for Plymouth. His Majesty's ship La Nymphe is hourly expelled to artive here, in order to receive on board specie, with which she is to proCeed dire& for Lisbon. Arrived the Twee Gesusters, -, from Havre de Grce, with flour. She is come into the harbour to discharge her cargo. SHEERNESS, JULY 4. Sailed the - Serapis to Woolwich. Arrived and came into the harbour the Pilchard • schooner from the Downs. His Majesty's . brigs Calypso and Gluckstadt have made the signal for a convoy to the Baltic, and will sail to-morrow morning. Accounts 'have reached Malta, previous to the sail ing of the Woolwich, store-sh►p, of a dreadful tire at Constantinople, in which- 2000 houses were burned., and' the 'Seraglio wit It difficulty saved from conflagra tion. This we presume. to be the fire that took place in the suburb of Pera, which is at a considera ble distance fr2m the residence of the Grand Signior. The following Extra&s of Letters will give . some idea of the hopes and situation of our army in Portugal, and what is supposed to be the plan of .Masseita . " LISBON, JUNE 16.—We have no interesting accounts from the army, since my laSt. Lord Wellington's head-quarters are still at Celerico, and his advanced guard at Guarda, and a little beyond it. Some of our cavalry, it seems, have advanced farther, and report says, they have cut off - a party cdthe enemy. The idea of an immediate battle is not now now so prevalent here. A 'strong column of the French has made a retrograde movement, which we cannot account for. Our accounts from Cadiz also .mention, that the enemy had partly retired therefrom. This makes some people think; Oat that the enemy have if in contemplation to enter Portugal more to the Southward, the better to be enabled to flank our , army ; but I hope General Hill, who has now with him sixteen thousand men refight thousand of which are British) will be be able to defeat their plan. " Telegraphs are now ereCting to communicate With the army, by which means we shall be able to know in about two hours what is passing on the frontiers.. The greatest activity still prevails in pro viding men for the army. Deserters continue to come in to us in great numbers,: they are chit. fly Germans, Poles, and Italians. It has been found necessary to keep British uniforms at the different posts, to cloath them as they arrive, as the red coats are a protection to them • when they journey inwards." Letters from Cadiz state, that 4000 troops had arrived from Carthagera to assist in the defence of that city. It is probably the same force that was ser.t from Cadiz, when the French made a demon stration of attacking Carthagera, The Regency were in possession of two intercept ed dispatches frem Madrid to the Commander of the army. that invests the Isle of Leon. Their contents had not transpired, but they were stated to be of the utmost importance. We are sorry to find that some'of these letters contradict the rumours of the defeat of SEISASTI- A N I's corps. The Duke of GLOUCESTER has taken a haus?. in Porttnau-square, late the residence of the Duchess of RoxBuRGH, to which his Royal Highness re moves this day. IASPALLAVON OP LORD ..,1.1-:;_\111.1.1.2-:;. OXFORD, JULY 5. The Theatre this morning made as noble an ap pearance as on Tuesday ; by ten o'clock it was corn plem!y filled. The Ladies, we think, wereinore numerous than befir, many of them being diiap pointed the first day, in consequence of an order is sued by the Doetors in Convocation, that no Lady sfiould be admitted, unless intrgduced by a Member of the University. , The lower. gallery, which was appropriated to the fair, was filled a_short time.after the doors were opened ;. and the Ladies who were not in time for that part of the :anise, were accom modated in the galleries and the area. The dress of the females surpassed all 'description, and it is sup posed there were upwards of a thousand elegantly dressed Ladies present, and considerably abdte that number' of Gentlemen. After the Chancellor had opened the Convoca tion, the Gentlemen whose names we, mentioned yesterday (with the exception of Sir G. Warrender, Sir G. 0. P. Turner, Sir G. Nugent, Sir E. Sou4s, H. Parnell, J. Macdonald, and J. Blackharne, who were not proposed) had the hOtibrary degree of Doctor in Civil Law conferred upon them. These Gentlemen were I:ropjiied by Kr.:Phillimore, of Ctiri'st Church, and in general were well received.' Upon the menin,n of the name . of . Sir Sidney Smith, lie was receiceJ ap i Aanse bordering on enthu- SlilSlll. Some voy - encomiums were passed on Sir Sidney by AL Piiillimore, in his address to the' Charictiior, as also on . Sir +V. W. Wynne. There were more DoctOrs present than could find seats in the usual place allotted for them, and several were obliged to find seats in other parts of the Theatre., After the above Gentlemen had had taken their degrees, and were seated, the band played a short piece froth one of the Overtures of Handel. When the business of the day was finished, the Band struck up "God save the King," to which Madame 'Catalani sung, the first verse admirably.— The Chancellor then dissolved the Convocation. This day the Chancellor,Vice-Chancellor, the No blemen, fiends of Houses, .Doctors, and a very nu merous assemblage of gentry as strangers,: dined in Christ Hall. The gates of the College were locked, and no person. admitted but those who dined, or had business at the dinner. Upwr.rds of 500 per sons dined, including the Members of the College. In the evening the third Concert took place to a numerous audience, though not so much so as on either of the preceding evenings, though there must be 1700 persons present at least. 'The songs most admired' were . C.stalani's " Vittitna sventurata," and " Ombra Aclorata," Bartleman's " Ye twice ten hundred Deities," and Braharn's Polacca, " NO, more by sorrow," which met with unbounded applause. Lindley played a Concerto on the Violon cello, as did Holmes, on the Basoon, both of which were excellent. Many Members of the University are displeased that Mr. Sheridan bas not been proposed for a de gree, and repeatedly called out for Sheridan, after this morning's performance was finished. This evening the following hand-bill has been circu- " It is humbly asked of the justice and generosity of the Members of Convocation, whether the public merits of the Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan do not claim, upon the present occasion, the usual ,honorary mark of their resped ?. and whether it.be consistent with the spirit of their honours to with hold . them from a man, whose talents have, through a long and arduous career, eminently adorned, and whose patriotism has, upon every trying occasion, stood forward to support the general interests of Of his country. KING's THEATRB.—A Concert was performed last night in the. Great Room at this place, for the benefit of Mr. LACY, formerly one of the Proprietors of Drury-lane Theatre, a Gentleman who might at this time have been in .affluence, if nature bad not endowed him with too benevolent and generous a disposition. Owing to several disappointments, many.of the performances which had been announc ed could not take place ; but INCLEDON and Miss FERON, kindly exerted their vocal ; powers. The former gave " All in the Downs," without a band, and would have done much more, if he had not been oblited to attend his duty at Covent-garden Theatre. Miss FERON merits high applause for the zeal with which she exerted herself on the occasion, as well as for her great musical talents. Mrs. CLARKE, from Covent-garden Theaire, Varied the "entertaiurnent vith recitations ; and REFs displayed his imitative powers with success.. We should mention the kindness of Mr. W. PARKE, who highly gratified the audience with a Concerto on the Onoe ; and Mr. COBHAM and Miss PERON also acquitted them selves ably in a Duet on the Violin and PianO forte. Mr. LACY apologized for the disappointment with that interestting and patheti6 humility which marks his character. The audience, who doubt less were disposed to receive with good will any thing intended for the advantage a so deserving an individual, accepted his apology with kindness and respea. A young man of the name of Dirgin was killed in a pitched battle with a man of the name of alugh ton, on Monday last, at Hasmere, near Coln brocek. bEPTFUPD, .hYLY 6, :810. !tit - ENDED LAUNCH OP 4l TS MAdSTY'S GULP 8.1.113131-4 tHAULOTTE. Tbis noble ship of i to guns, the largest ever built so high up the Ritter as Deptford, is to be consigned to its proper element on the 17th instanri.wben old Father THAMES Will be enriched with another proud bulwark of Briton's glory. Among the numeroui visitors this magnificent strutiure of art has drawn to the Royal Dock-yard, we were yesterday highly gratified to observe the barge of the'Merchant Taylors' Company land there a numerous partv.of respectable citizen;, under the heart-chearing - tunes of " God save the King," and "Rule Britaania." The Master ofthe l‘lmThant Tfliars' Company, (WILLIAM HAY WARD, Esq ) his Wardetrs, and the whole party, were received . .with the utmost poiite- , neSs by Commissioner. CUNNINGIIANT; who escorted them round this intended qUeen of the avail, with the most marked attention.' If one thing more than another could be calcu lated to glatily and greatly reward the Officeo whose labours have tended to rear, and whose best hopes arc, safely, to launch this stupendous labrick) it must hate been to behold a band of patriotiO, wealthy; and . enlightened citizens contemplating' 'with pride and pleasure the additional security which commerce. may derive, and additional gl or y• t,ich their country nray acquire,' by the bounty of nat and the art of, man, :as combined in:this noble ship,. • 'After quitting .the DoCk-yard, the Barge pas.i'd close to !he Marin e So c i e ty' s s hi p , and received three cheers from the juvenile Tars on b whose feeble voices -(as' perhaps vociferating- tho sentiments of so many future heroes) w2s distinCtl telt and handsomely returned by the Barge's crew. At passing the. ship bearing the 'flag of Admir'3 l OTWAY, the Barge lay on its oars and compliment ed the flag with " Rule Bri'annia." The whole party then landed at the Ship Tavern, at Green, where a sumptuous dinner Was provided, and a Dual ber of loyal and constituional toasts were supported by appropriate songs from Messrs. TAYLOR, LEETIi, and other perforibers. The whole was "a festive and patriotic treat. We understand. that Mr: CHINNERY, who so de' servedly obtained the prize, for his Poem on rl►e DYING GLADIATOR, (which we inserted yesterday) • displayed great powers as an orator, in reciting it 91 Oxford, as well as taste and imagination in ti' e composition itself. •The energetic passages were properly relieved by those of the pathetic kind, ao d the whole, we are assured, was delivered with gre 9. o feeling and ex pression.• Yesterday Astley's 2(2d annual prize wherry, give ° in honour of his Majeity's Birth Day, was rowed t:)f by six %%mermen, who bad not won any of the pr` - 1 ceding. prizes. Their names were : AbrAe Bridge. Hunt, iepper-Alley, blue. Thomas, Vauxhall, svar • ler. Below Bridge. E. Hamilton, Sturner's-kc ct purple. j.. Palmer, Horst:o oo ' green. _ J Laslibroo lc, I ton-gate,pir' l4. The competitors started ahotAt foer o'clock fr° o , the centre arch of IVestrninster Bridge, and ha , i e ! pulled to fiungcrford, return e d, according to l b ": terms of the first heat. The three successful boat' were Lashbrook, Hunt, and Author. This presented a grand trial of skill, but the atiivity Al' s judgment of Lashbrook, enabled him to conic I ' l considerable diitance a-head of the others. - j. Authur, Lambeth, yel low. At five o'clock the three winning boats started ag s;° to row round - a boat moored off Cumberland 63r dens, return on the Surrey side, row round the con opposite Hungerford, and finally return to 11 " Bridge. The grand contest on this occasion wa' ae tween Lashbrook and Hunt ; the former, whO %‘;'; young and athletic, exerted himself to g ait' t" t wherry, but the strength and knowl e dg e of Ow,' prevailed ; having gained the lead, he arrived 611 .; and was declared viaor, amidst the shouts of a Pl.. body of spectators in boats, and on the banks of -The admirers of aquatic sports have seldoul l ,,, tamed more gratification at a specta c l e o f this cription The candidates for the prize were guished by caps and sashes of their peculiar colo u ' 4 ' Several excellent bands . of music were stationed r ie l a the winning point, decorated with flags, anc l 4o , short nothing was wanting te give effect to tbisL o t nual regatta. We did not learn_ that a n y accinj happened. In the evening the wherry was giv e ' ) the winner at Astley's Amphitheatre. of A shocking accident happened at the rookery 0 0 Mr. Smallby, in the neighbourhood of ChoblialTh_ o f Wednesday morning. Two young Gentleineth f ► the names of Haymes ,and Thornham, were ing themselves. at shooting rooks; and W O5l , 0 former was watching for an aim, with the golv the cock, in a slanting direaion, it went off , P o , lodged the contents in the body of Mr. Thorn i ld which killed him on the spot. A C o r,,ner's returned a verdict of Accidental Death the san°, lo is ,The deceased was eineteen y e ars o f age; 0 "`" only son. so ° A shocking murder was committed o n the Pe r d, of Mr. Isaac Progers, a farmer at BAlrs Hand r ,Dt near Chepstow, Somersetshire, on Sunday last, by two rubbers, who enter e d th e house'at " 11 4 night, and alarmed Mr, P. and his w ife in he ld TheydeManded to know where any property be found, and on being informed there was the house, one of the villains stabbed Mr. P. ° :•ft , then ransacked the house of plate, and other and decamped. A labourer is in custody on s ti ci l `d cion of the murder. Mrs. Progers is not exlx' to survive the shock. On the 18th oh. some persons fishing for near Nethertown, St. Bee's, found a man'" with the foot in it, sticking between two s tones', and, in the evening, the same party found anot.,Pool evidently its fellow, but about a hundred yards Pot the spot where they met with the firct-13ot t 'l/ . geared to have been wrenched off by the arrei k ;oll The shoes are apparently new, and the stoc k feet of a light blue colour.—The skin of both ion' is perted, but the flesh is in a state of putrefa ConjeMiu e is at a loss to account lot this eg fr dinary occurrente. ~~